Quebec hospital data compiled by the Régie de l'assurance Maladie du Québec from the MED-ECHO database. The table provides counts of urgent, semi-urgent, non-urgent, and newborn departures aggregated by health region of treatment. It covers short-term physical and psychiatric care and day surgeries across the entire province.
Use Cases
- Compare regional healthcare service utilization based on admission urgency categories.
- Analyze newborn departure patterns across different health regions of treatment.
- Monitor hospital operational metrics for short-term and psychiatric care.
- Assess the distribution of urgent versus non-urgent hospital discharges province-wide.
Strengths
- Data covers the whole of Quebec, providing provincial scope.
- Compiled from the official MED-ECHO database by the Régie de l'assurance Maladie du Québec.
- Includes distinct categories for urgent, semi-urgent, non-urgent, and newborn departures.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Régie de l'assurance Maladie du Québec
- Collection Method
- Compiled by hospitals from the MED-ECHO database.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:51:32.756751; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Quebec, Canada